What's with the judgement? A lot of people work in IT in places where the pay is good but not that good that many situations can lead to little or no savings. Having many dependants doesn't help either (kids, sick family members, elders you need to support and what not).
It reminds me of the bubble some of us live on thinking everyone has it good and that it's just a matter of being disciplined to save money.
I don't get this type of structure or fear of being "judged" when addressing articles. When you say this:
> What's with the judgement?
How does one feel judged by the writer of an article who doesn't know the reader.
It's a writing device addressing the reader as if they were physically there, but of course they are not. It feels like eminently sensible advice to "save money", I don't see how anyone can disagree with that, but of course there are a legion of specific circumstances that would prevent someone from being able to do so - none of which the writer can know, which consequently means they are not "judging" the reader.
How has it become a thing to feel that some sort of judgement over preferred patterns of behaviour is negative. If everything is written in just plain "of course all choices are good choices" then conversation/writing is inherently uninteresting. Of course, one does not have to agree with the point of view of the article. Ultimately, it's not as if any individual reader is going to be deeply emotionally damaged by the random "judgements" of a writer on the Internet surely?
Fair enough, I may very well be reading too much into it, but, just to explain myself: A comment strongly advising to do personal changes in someone's life, and lifestyle in particular, based on barely any information on that person's life, does sound judgmental to me. It's implying that he or she is doing something seriously wrong if he/she hasn't managed to save money and it's on the IT business (like if that were a guarantee of earning good money). The "seriously wrong" interpretation comes from the "strong advice emphasis". The comment is clearly making it sound like someone in IT who hasn't managed to save doesn't know what his doing with his finances and needs basic advice on lifestyle and saving choices.
> All of those things can lead to surprise costs, which serves to justify saving some coin
I think you're missing my point here. Of course it's a good idea to save, but not everyone's circumstances at any time allow to.
It reminds me of the bubble some of us live on thinking everyone has it good and that it's just a matter of being disciplined to save money.